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Well, I'm watching bits and pieces when the Pirates game is at commercial. I haven't watched this show in quite a few years, ever since I saw an episode where they were criticizing a girl for not being thin enough. The girl, from my point of view, looked anorexic and as thin as a twig as it was. Apparently triple digit weights are anathema or something. Anyway, thankfully we don't deal with this junk at the Pro level around these parts, and cheerleading stays at the high school and college level, where it belongs...

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

Rewatching season 6 of Burn Notice on Netflix. I hadn't noticed how corny it could get at times. I mean, ok, it has Bruce Campbell in it, obviously there's going to be a significant corn/camp factor... but even the writing and such (not just Campbell's delivery/mannerisms) are pretty goofy. I guess maybe the current season is more serious compared to before, and that's why I noticed now. Anyway, still enjoyable...

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

'Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against stupid. That might actually make a difference.'~Harry Dresden

"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

I was one of the 25.13 million viewers who watched the NFL game last night. Because of this poor choice I did not see the Burn Notice episode until the rebroadcast at midnight. I feel so disgusted with myself.

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

Last week Jesse said: "Yeah, Mr. White's gay for me!" The tone was sarcastic, so I didn't give it much attention at the time. But then I saw this pic on facebook and it got me to wondering... could it be true about Mr. White?

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

But it had not been in Tess's power - nor is it in anybody's power - to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them. She - and how many more - might have ironically said to God with Saint Augustine, "Thou hast counselled a better course than thou hast permitted."

...Walt also can't cook for him if he's dead, and the guys were shooting straight at where Walt was sitting. Also, if they killed Hank and/or Jesse, who says Walt would cook for them anyway, even if they threatened his life?...

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

...Walt also can't cook for him if he's dead, and the guys were shooting straight at where Walt was sitting. Also, if they killed Hank and/or Jesse, who says Walt would cook for them anyway, even if they threatened his life?...

Why am I reading this stuff when I'm not caught up yet?

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"Some have such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at pleasure, so as to produce the effect of singing."- St. Augustine of Hippo

And with that, Burn Notice ends. Good ending to the series. Sad. Ultimately satisfying.

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

Big Brother.The Office [US & UK]. (You people are so derivative. I didn't realize how much this show infected the brains of nearly everyone communicating on the internet. I hadn't seen a scene of either till a few weeks ago.) {The US version is the better in an uncommon turn if you end both series at the same points.}

Love: how he has so much in the way of money and resources that he'll burn down a multi-million dollar home after a weekend of fun just to cover his tracks.

Hate: how he interrogates Michael within an inch of his life, yet hires incompetent goons to back him up, such that 5 men, some with machine guns, and given a 3-4 second heads up, can't manage to shoot someone 20 feet away.

RIP James. We barely knew ye.

RIP Sonya. We wanted to know ye a lot better. Like, alot a lot.

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

"Whether it’s the guillotine, the hangman’s noose, or reciprocal endeavors of militaristic horror, radical evil will never be recompensed with radical punishment. The only answer, the only remedy, and the only truly effective response to radical evil is radical love."+ Gebre Menfes Kidus +http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000984270/Rebel-Song.aspx

Third - the stand-up parts are better than the stuff draped around them. I don't really know the guy's stuff. It ain't bad.

His standup is quality. Pretty much all the material in the show comes from his specials, so maybe check them out. He's actually one of the bigger names in comedy these days, the 5th highest earning comic of 2013 according to Forbes. Mind you, there are two ventroliquists ahead of him on that list, but it's still pretty impressive for a white comedian who uses the n-word in his routine and complains about people who refer to it as "the n-word." I suppose I should warn the squeamish that the above link contains the n-word, as well as the f-word, the c-word, and some other words.

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Fourth ~ why do I have to hate or love something. Since everyone claims I am a contrarian you know you were pushing me into a tepid reaction.

I dunno. It just seems like the sort of unconventional thing you'd have a pretty strong opinion about. I can see the sort of dry and rather depressed kind of humor appealing to you, but given your stated admiration for television shows that take advantage of the medium to build long-term plot arcs, I wasn't sure how you'd react to a show that often abandons storylines mid-episode.

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I hope you are really let down tonight.

I was not.

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"Some have such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at pleasure, so as to produce the effect of singing."- St. Augustine of Hippo

Rewatching the 3rd season of The Walking Dead (Comcast finally has them up).

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

I like NBC's Million Second Quiz although it seemed like a stupid combination of Survivor, Big Brother and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The TV ratings have declined from 1.7 on the original episode on September 7 to 0.7 on September 14 when they rebounded back to 1.0 on September 16.

Ryan Seacrest has a future - he can replace Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune.

I've been watching lots of soccer on NBC Sports. Also, the NFL on the standard stations. The preseason in hockey has started, but it seems none of the games have been on the channels I get. They'd better fix that in a hurry.

'Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against stupid. That might actually make a difference.'~Harry Dresden

"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

I loved the 1st season, but then it went down hill real fast. Did anyone catch "Sleepy Hollow" last night? I'll add this to my list of "Once Upon A Time".

The first season was 14 years ago LOL

BB Finale tonight...............End of summer

14 years ago? I thought it was 12, since I remember 9/11 having near the end of the series and a woman from NYC wanted to go home because, I think, her sister was in the WTC. It was the only season where everyone liked each other and acted like human beings.

"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

After Laura's killer was revealed the show dropped in quality real quick but then Lynch had an amazing finale blowout.

I sawed the movies as well.

I dated a girl when it first ran who thought David Lynch was mind blowing. For my money at the time he didn't hold a candle to nitrous fueled LSD trips and it was on TV which meant you had to have to some understanding of time to follow it or at least a more pedestrian understanding of temporality than I had.

You have no understanding how frustrating it is to understand the entire scope of the passage of being and not be able to manage to use a TV Guide properly.

I think David Lynch accompanied the end of my use of such psychotropics as well. I was rolling hard and agreed to go to a flick with someone I had bumped into and had a hard time imagining never having had been separate from before. I saw about 32 minutes of Lost Highway before I was certain the walls were moving at such a rate that I would be smooshed before the end of whatever I was watching and I split and ended up asleep in a water fountain.

Not mine, though I laughed out loud when I first saw it. There is also a version of it with stills from the actual show, but I thought the cartoon one was much funnier.

I wonder who it's creepier for, those who get the joke, or those who don't.

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"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft

"as [you've] informed us that respect chills love, it is natural to conclude that all your pretty flights arise from your pampered sensibility; and that, vain of this fancied preeminence of organs, you foster every emotion till the fumes, mounting to your brain, dispel the sober suggestions of reason. It is not in this view surprising that when you should argue you become impassioned, and that reflection inflames your imagination instead of enlightening your understanding." - Mary Wollstonecraft